Selections from 2025: Pinpointing a Bright Fast Radio Burst with CHIME
Astronomers have traced a bright, seemingly one-off fast radio burst to a galaxy 130 million light-years away.
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Selections from 2025: JWST Searches for an Atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1e
What did JWST see when it examined TRAPPIST-1e, a nearby habitable-zone exoplanet orbiting a cool red star?
Selections from 2025: The Nine-Ringed Bullseye Galaxy
Researchers discovered a record-breaking giant nine-ringed galaxy that provides critical insight into galaxy formation and evolution.
Selections from 2025: The Formation of Massive Stars
Researchers used an airborne telescope to find out more about the origins of massive stars in our galaxy.
Selections from 2025: A New Way to Combine Ground-Based Images
With immense amounts of data headed our way from ground-based facilities like the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, new methods are needed to rapidly and effectively process high-resolution images.
Selections from 2025: The Sun Changed Course in 2008
During the exceptionally deep solar minimum of 2008, researchers thought the Sun might be entering a prolonged period of low solar activity — but the Sun had other plans.
Selections from 2025: A Repeating Fast Radio Burst in a Quiescent Galaxy
The repeating fast radio burst source FRB 20240209A is the only known repeating burst to come from a quiescent galaxy.
Selections from 2025: A Search for Gravitational Waves from SN 2023ixf
SN 2023ixf is the closest supernova in a decade. Did researchers detect gravitational waves from the explosion?
Selections from 2025: Hubble Observes 3I/ATLAS
The third interstellar object to enter our solar system, 3I/ATLAS, is without a doubt one of the most fascinating astronomical discoveries of this year.
Intergalactic Impacts of Quasars During the Epoch of Reionization
A recent study with JWST has unveiled how a reionization-era quasar has suppressed star formation in its galactic neighbors.
A Unified Explanation for Fast Radio Bursts
Researchers examine the possibility that one-off and repeating fast radio bursts could both arise from magnetars.
Michelangelo in Space: A Planet Carving the Fomalhaut Debris Disk?
Astrobites reports on the Fomalhaut debris disk, which is well studied but may contain a hidden planet we haven’t seen yet.